Discuss the Importance of Returns Management

question 88

Essay

Discuss the importance of returns management. Give an example of how a clothing retailer may need to manage its returns.

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Definitions:

Normally Distributed

Describes a data distribution that follows a bell curve, where most observations cluster around the central peak and probabilities for values taper off equally on both sides.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by summing all the numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers.

Right-Skewed

A description of a distribution of data where the tail on the right side of the histogram is longer or fatter than the left side, indicating that the mean is greater than the median.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in the data set deviate from the mean.